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- the invention is in the field of nutritional supplement compositions, in particular the invention is in the field of nutritional supplement compositions which are individually specific to the needs of a specific consumer thereof, herein referred to as custom nutritional supplement compositions.
- the inventors are aware of websites offering consumers the option of ordering individual nutrient substances from a menu and having these shipped to the consumer either pre-blended or for blending by the consumer in ratio's which the consumer chooses thereby to obtain a custom nutritional supplement composition.
- a drawback of these and similar methodologies of preparing custom nutritional supplement compositions is that certain combinations are unpalatable and a need exists for a system and method for providing consumers with custom nutritional supplement compositions which contain the desired nutrients in the desired amounts, by ratio, as well as being palatable and even pleasant to consume.
- the prior patent applications related to customized nutritional supplements pertain to the collection of subjective and/or objective data relating to an individual, and the formulation of a combination of nutritional substances based on this data, with the objective of optimizing the benefit derived from these products in terms of the individual's health or appearance.
- Other patent applications also include methods and devices for dispensing customized supplements (WO2005069181 A1, US20020082745 A1, WO2013130576 A1).
- the invention which is described below has as its object to ameliorate the problems described above and to provide a palatable custom nutritional supplement.
- a system which implements a method of altering the flavour, stability, consistency, texture, colour and other organoleptic qualities of a custom nutritional supplement composition containing nutritional supplement ingredients selected by a user of the system, said method including addition of specific additives in specific quantities to a custom nutritional supplement composition recipe, which additives and quantities are selected through the retrieval of data stored on a computer system which data has correlated the combinations of nutritional supplement ingredients, the additives, and their relative quantities.
- the system includes a computer system including a user interface whereby the user can submit their selection of nutritional supplement composition ingredients, their quantities per serving or ratios, their preferred flavour, and additive type (eg. sweetener type) preferences which data is processed on a CPU of the computer system.
- additive data relevant to the custom nutritional supplement composition is automatically calculated by means of a computer algorithm using input data retrieved from a data storage on the computer system and dependent on the user selected parameters, thereby to formulate a recipe including the custom nutritional composition ingredients and additives for execution by an automated system, or manually.
- the method of the system may pertain to the way in which the combination and quantities of these additives are determined, making it possible to automate the production of a custom nutritional supplement composition product, with desired flavour, texture and other sensory characteristics.
- the product produced by this method will typically be superior to what can be achieved using prior art in an automated process.
- the invention may provide a system and method for the automatic formulation of a final recipe for a nutritional powder supplement, based on the criteria specified by the user, who may be the prescriber or consumer thereof, the criteria typically including specified quantities of nutritional ingredients and/or macro nutrients and/or a flavour option and/or an additive type option chosen from a catalogue detailing the available options and quantity ranges.
- the catalogue may be displayed on a website in communication with the computer system.
- the method may entail the automatic specification of additives, additional to the combination of nutritional ingredients, macro nutrients, and the like, necessary to satisfy the user's nutritional requirements, with the purpose of creating a final recipe that will ensure the palatability, stability, consistency, texture and colour of the product in its final form before ingestion.
- the method further includes an automatic procedure to determine the serving size, including volume and mass, necessary to meet the specified criteria as well as the adjustment of the recipe to allow the use of standard serving sizes if required.
- This method eliminates the need to either have numerous (at least thousands) of recipes to cover all the possible ingredient combinations or the manual formulation of a custom recipe after the criteria have been specified. It also reduces the need for skilled research and development inputs when formulating a custom or new blend.
- an automated method of preparing a custom nutritional supplement composition including:
- master batch and variants thereof is used to denote a pre-mixed base mixture or add-mixture and thus is considered equivalent to the term “Base Mix” or “Add-Mix” wherever it appears in the specification.
- the master batches may include one or more nutritional ingredients which are used in a number of custom nutritional supplement compositions, so that the number of individual ingredients which need to be handled and blended in the production of the product is reduced. These nutritional ingredients may be premixed in preselected ratios.
- the master batches may include one or more additive selected from colourant, stabiliser, thickener, flavouring, sweetener, anti-foaming agents, and preservative.
- the master batches may include any additive permissible for such product.
- the master batches may be prepared in advance in large quantities and stored in bulk storage, such as silos, whereas the individual ingredients and additives which may be blended with the master batches are stored in smaller quantities.
- the blending of the custom nutritional supplement composition product may be automated at least to the extent of determining and dispensing the master batches required for a particular custom nutritional supplement composition product.
- the automated method may however include the automated determination and dispensing of individual additives and nutritional ingredients required in addition to the master batches.
- the customer also specified the product preferences represented by the Base Mix and Add-Mix choices (Table 1: Cell H3 to H6).
- the additives and quantities thereof in rows 1 to 8 are selected through the retrieval of data stored on a computer system which data has correlated the combinations of nutritional supplement ingredients, the additives, and their relative quantities to obtain a palatable product.
- the mix obtained is shown in Table 2.
- Table 3 the nutritional information of the blend, including protein, fats, and the like are shown for the custom nutritional supplement of the example.
- Table 4 shows the vitamins and minerals thereof.
- the system has certain “Base Mixes” and certain “Add-Mixes” which are provided for use in the preparation of the custom nutritional supplement composition.
- the different Base Mixes and Add-Mixes are designed and the proportions of the different ingredients is listed as percentages i.t.o. mass.
- Base Mixes might consist of individual ingredients as well as Add-Mixes. The designs are shown in Table 5.
- the final proportions of active ingredients, Add-Mixes and Base Mixes is automatically determined by using predetermined “Base Mix Factors” (attribute assigned to an Active Ingredient), “AddMix Factors” (attribute assigned to an Active Ingredient) and “Base Mix Adding Factors” (attribute assigned to a Base Mix), and “Add-Mix Adding Factors” (attribute assigned to an Add-Mix).
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- Base Mix Adding Factors attribute assigned to a Base Mix
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- Base Mix Factor For each ingredient a Base Mix Factor is determined. A proposed empirical method is to prepare a Base Mix complete with water added (one of the Base Mixes are chosen as the standard Base Mix). An ingredient is then tested by incrementally adding more of it and tasting/testing it to determine the maximum amount which can be added before the mix becomes unacceptable. The Base Mix Factor would then be the inverse of this ingredient—Base Mix ratio and is recorded on the “Ingredient information & Properties” sheet, Table 6.
- Add-Mix is designed.
- An example is a sour ingredient which will require a sweetening agent as neutraliser.
- the ingredient composition of this Add-Mix is captured on the “Base Mix Design” sheet.
- the most effective ratio of active ingredient vs specific Add-Mix might be empirically determined by mixing an amount of the active ingredient in water and then adding Add-Mix until the specific property is sufficiently neutralised (often, the more the Add-Mix the less Base Mix required, it might thus be a balance). The proportion of Add-Mix to active ingredient is then recorded as the Add-Mix Factor on the “Ingredient Info” sheet.
- An example of a theoretically determined factor would be when an acidic Active Ingredient is neutralised with a theoretically calculated amount of pH increasing additive (as an Add-Mix) based on the concentrations of hydrogen ions.
- Another example is relationships mined from data by means of machine learning and artificial intelligence to determine Add-Mix Factors and to refine the correlation algorithms.
- Add-Mix Factors should only be calculated for the standard Add-Mix (X 1 , Y 1 or Z 1 ), the Add-Mix Adding Factors are used to account for the different Add-Mixes within the same Add-Mix Category which are designed for the same purpose and might thus be used interchangeably eg. stevia mix vs xylitol mix as alternative Add-Mixes within the sweetening Add-Mix Category.
- the choice of which specific Add-Mix to use within an Add-Mix category is typically user selected.
- the active ingredient is then mixed with the Add-Aix and the steps are repeated with this mixture to determine the active's Base Mix Factor, to be recorded on the “Ingredient Information & Properties” sheet.
- a standard active testing mix is chosen from + ⁇ 5 popular active ingredients (eg. every ingredient at recommended dose multiplied by 10), the neutralising Add-Mixes should be included at the specified rates (summation of ingredient mass multiplied by Add-Mix Factor).). Base Mix is then incrementally added until the product is satisfactory. The Base Mix Adding Factor of the Base Mix is then adjusted on the “Base Mix Design” sheet (the sweetener factors should be returned to the correct value) until the amount of base mix specified on the “Mix Info” sheet is the same as the amount empirically tested.
- the Add-Mix Adding Factors for the standard Add-Mixes are typically equal to 1. Additional Add-Mixes within the same Add-Mix Category should then be tested and its adding factor adjusted to a % of the standard Add-Mix. (eg. a sweetness Add-Mix's sweetness should be compared with the standard sweetness Add-Mix to determine the relationship: eg. 5% Add-Mix Adding Factor would then mean that either 100 mg of Add-Mix Y 1 or 5 mg of the new sweetness Add-Mix can be used interchangeably with the same result).
- the sweetener portion (or any other portion) to be removed from the Base Mix recipes, and added as an Add-Mix, to allow for the specification of different options (eg stevia vs sucralose) without multiplying the number of base mixes required.
- the % portion of standard sweetener (Add-Mix Y 1 ) (or any other Add-Mix representing a portion of the Base Mix) is specified instead of the individual ingredients in the Base Mix itself.
- the ingredient quantities should only be in the Add-Mix design. See Table 5: “Base Mix & Add-Mix Design” Sheet for an example.
- FIG. 1 System/Method Flow Diagram. (note that the verbs refer to actions automatically performed by the computer system)
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- The invention is in the field of nutritional supplement compositions, in particular the invention is in the field of nutritional supplement compositions which are individually specific to the needs of a specific consumer thereof, herein referred to as custom nutritional supplement compositions.
- The inventors are aware of websites offering consumers the option of ordering individual nutrient substances from a menu and having these shipped to the consumer either pre-blended or for blending by the consumer in ratio's which the consumer chooses thereby to obtain a custom nutritional supplement composition.
- A drawback of these and similar methodologies of preparing custom nutritional supplement compositions is that certain combinations are unpalatable and a need exists for a system and method for providing consumers with custom nutritional supplement compositions which contain the desired nutrients in the desired amounts, by ratio, as well as being palatable and even pleasant to consume.
- Current practice in the manufacturing of customized nutritional supplements are based on a client specified combination of nutritional ingredients with the option to add a “flavour pack” which contains a standardised mixture of substances with the objective of altering the flavour of the mixture. However, the inventors are aware that it is not possible to produce a standard flavouring mixture which is effective and economical for all possible combinations of nutritional ingredients.
- In other instances a “customisation service” is offered in which it is assumed that the recipe is adjusted by skilled human intervention after the client's criteria is received, in which case the process cannot be effectively and efficiently automated without the use of the current invention. The cost and time of each intervention is also saved through this invention.
- The prior patent applications related to customized nutritional supplements, pertain to the collection of subjective and/or objective data relating to an individual, and the formulation of a combination of nutritional substances based on this data, with the objective of optimizing the benefit derived from these products in terms of the individual's health or appearance. Other patent applications also include methods and devices for dispensing customized supplements (WO2005069181 A1, US20020082745 A1, WO2013130576 A1).
- The invention which is described below has as its object to ameliorate the problems described above and to provide a palatable custom nutritional supplement.
- According to a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a system which implements a method of altering the flavour, stability, consistency, texture, colour and other organoleptic qualities of a custom nutritional supplement composition containing nutritional supplement ingredients selected by a user of the system, said method including addition of specific additives in specific quantities to a custom nutritional supplement composition recipe, which additives and quantities are selected through the retrieval of data stored on a computer system which data has correlated the combinations of nutritional supplement ingredients, the additives, and their relative quantities.
- The system includes a computer system including a user interface whereby the user can submit their selection of nutritional supplement composition ingredients, their quantities per serving or ratios, their preferred flavour, and additive type (eg. sweetener type) preferences which data is processed on a CPU of the computer system. The additive data relevant to the custom nutritional supplement composition is automatically calculated by means of a computer algorithm using input data retrieved from a data storage on the computer system and dependent on the user selected parameters, thereby to formulate a recipe including the custom nutritional composition ingredients and additives for execution by an automated system, or manually.
- The method of the system may pertain to the way in which the combination and quantities of these additives are determined, making it possible to automate the production of a custom nutritional supplement composition product, with desired flavour, texture and other sensory characteristics. The product produced by this method will typically be superior to what can be achieved using prior art in an automated process.
- Thus, the invention may provide a system and method for the automatic formulation of a final recipe for a nutritional powder supplement, based on the criteria specified by the user, who may be the prescriber or consumer thereof, the criteria typically including specified quantities of nutritional ingredients and/or macro nutrients and/or a flavour option and/or an additive type option chosen from a catalogue detailing the available options and quantity ranges.
- The catalogue may be displayed on a website in communication with the computer system.
- The method may entail the automatic specification of additives, additional to the combination of nutritional ingredients, macro nutrients, and the like, necessary to satisfy the user's nutritional requirements, with the purpose of creating a final recipe that will ensure the palatability, stability, consistency, texture and colour of the product in its final form before ingestion.
- The correlation of the combination of additives required, and their quantities is based on the theoretically and empirically determined relationships of these substances with each offered nutritional ingredient and their combinations and with the additives themselves, in the determination of the final product's sensory properties.
- These relationships are predetermined and stored on the computer system to permit retrieval thereof thereby to allow the computer assisted automatic formulation of the final recipe once the input criteria are specified.
- The method further includes an automatic procedure to determine the serving size, including volume and mass, necessary to meet the specified criteria as well as the adjustment of the recipe to allow the use of standard serving sizes if required.
- This method eliminates the need to either have numerous (at least thousands) of recipes to cover all the possible ingredient combinations or the manual formulation of a custom recipe after the criteria have been specified. It also reduces the need for skilled research and development inputs when formulating a custom or new blend.
- According to a second aspect of the invention, there is provided an automated method of preparing a custom nutritional supplement composition, said method including:
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- preparing one or more master batches or base mixes and add-mixes including one or more nutritional supplement ingredients and/or one or more additives in predetermined ratios; and
- in response to a user custom nutritional supplement composition product request, combining calculated or selected quantities of one or more master batches including base mixes and/or add-mixes, one or more additives, and/or one or more nutritional supplement ingredients thereby to obtain a palatable, so stabilised, custom nutritional supplement composition product having a desired flavour, colour, consistency or any other sensory characteristics while reducing the number of components required to be blended to achieve same.
- The terms “master batch” and variants thereof is used to denote a pre-mixed base mixture or add-mixture and thus is considered equivalent to the term “Base Mix” or “Add-Mix” wherever it appears in the specification.
- The master batches may include one or more nutritional ingredients which are used in a number of custom nutritional supplement compositions, so that the number of individual ingredients which need to be handled and blended in the production of the product is reduced. These nutritional ingredients may be premixed in preselected ratios.
- The master batches may include one or more additive selected from colourant, stabiliser, thickener, flavouring, sweetener, anti-foaming agents, and preservative. However, the master batches may include any additive permissible for such product.
- The master batches may be prepared in advance in large quantities and stored in bulk storage, such as silos, whereas the individual ingredients and additives which may be blended with the master batches are stored in smaller quantities.
- The blending of the custom nutritional supplement composition product may be automated at least to the extent of determining and dispensing the master batches required for a particular custom nutritional supplement composition product. The automated method may however include the automated determination and dispensing of individual additives and nutritional ingredients required in addition to the master batches.
- The invention will now be described on the basis of a worked example of how a custom nutritional supplement composition is made. Any disclosure below of a broader scope than that of the example as such is intended to augment the Summary of the Invention above.
- In the example, a customer selected from the available ingredients a selection of active ingredients and the quantity of each that he or she requires to have. These are shown in rows 9 to 14 of the table below (Table 1).
- The customer also specified the product preferences represented by the Base Mix and Add-Mix choices (Table 1: Cell H3 to H6).
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TABLE 1 “Mixing Inputs” Sheet CUSTOMER INPUTS Product Name: Peter's Pre-Workout Base Mix Choice: B1 Recipe Code: Generated: eg. AB231 Add-Mix X Choice: X1 Add-Mix Y Choice: Y1 Add-Mix Z Coice: Z1 Active Ingredient Permissible Range (grams) Selected Amount ID Factory Code Name Min Recommended Max (grams) 1 A1 ACIDULANT 2 B1 BUFFER 3 S1 SWEETENESS INGREDIENT X 4 M1 MASKING AGENT 5 S2 SALT 6 S3 STABILIZER 7 A2 ANTICAKING AGENT 8 M2 MCT OIL 9 C1 CREATINE 0.100 g 2.500 g 10.000 g 5.000 10 A3 ARGININE 0.100 g 1.000 g 5.000 g 1.000 11 C2 CAFFEINE 0.020 g 0.050 g 0.100 g 0.050 12 L1 L-LEUCINE 0.100 g 1.500 g 5.000 g 1.500 13 L2 L-ISOLEUCINE 0.100 g 1.500 g 5.000 g 1.500 14 L3 L-VALINE 0.100 g 1.500 g 5.000 g 1.500 NB. Table is truncated for this example and typically continues downwards - The additives and quantities thereof in
rows 1 to 8 are selected through the retrieval of data stored on a computer system which data has correlated the combinations of nutritional supplement ingredients, the additives, and their relative quantities to obtain a palatable product. The mix obtained is shown in Table 2. -
TABLE 2 “Mix Info” Sheet 1MIX INFO QUANTITIES System Calculated Additives (Base Mix and Add-Mixes) Base/Add-Mix Category: Base Add-Mix Add-Mix Y Add-Mix Mix (g) X (g) (Sweetness) (g) Z (g) Specific Base/Add-Mix Selected: User Selected Active B1 X1 Y1 Z1 Ingredient Amounts Name: Factory Ingredient Name (adjusted for Berry Standard ID Code (as on product label) Category purity) (g) Blast 0 Sweetener TOTAL 1 A1 ACIDULANT Additive — 1.816 — — — 1.816 2 B1 BUFFER Additive — 0.397 — — — 0.397 3 S1 SWEETENESS Sweetener — — — 0.626 — 0.626 INGREDIENT X 4 M1 MASKING AGENT Flavourant — 0.397 — — — 0.397 5 S2 SALT Flavourant — 0.289 — — — 0.289 6 S3 STABILIZER Additive — 0.162 — — — 0.162 7 A2 ANTICAKING AGENT Additive — 0.159 — — — 0.159 8 M2 MCT OIL Additive — 0.029 — — — 0.029 9 C1 CREATINE Amino Acid 5.000 — — — — 5.000 10 A3 ARGININE Amino Acid 1.000 — — — — 1.000 11 C2 CAFFEINE Stimulant 0.050 — — — — 0.050 12 L1 L-LEUCINE Amino Acid 1.500 — — — — 1.500 13 L2 L-ISOLEUCINE Amino Acid 1.500 — — — — 1.500 14 L3 L-VALINE Amino Acid 1.500 — — — — 1.500 Total Quantities (g): 10.550 3.610 — 0.626 — 14.425 Water 420 0 0 0 420 Qty (ml) - In Table 3, the nutritional information of the blend, including protein, fats, and the like are shown for the custom nutritional supplement of the example.
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TABLE 3 “Mix Info” Sheet 2 MIX INFO MACRO NUTRIENTS (g or mg/100 g) FATS Factory Ingredient Name Energy CARBOHYDRATES Unsaturated ID Code (as on product label) (kJ) PROTEIN Sugars Complex Total Saturated Mono-unsaturated 1 A1 ACIDULANT 13 — — — — — — 2 B1 BUFFER — — — — — — — 3 S1 SWEETENESS INGREDIENT X — — — — — — — 4 M1 MASKING AGENT — — — — — — — 5 S2 SALT — — — — — — — 6 S3 STABILIZER — — — — — — — 7 A2 ANTICAKING AGENT — — — — — — — 8 M2 MCT OIL 3700 — — — — 92 6 9 C1 CREATINE 1632 96 — — — — — 10 A3 ARGININE 1632 96 — — — — — 11 C2 CAFFEINE — — — — — — — 12 L1 L-LEUCINE 1632 96 — — — — — 13 L2 L-ISOLEUCINE 1632 96 — — — — — 14 L3 L-VALINE 1632 96 — — — — — MACRO NUTRIENTS (g or mg/100 g) FATS Unsaturated Poly-unsaturated of wich ID Omega 3 (mg) Omega 6 (mg) Other Total Poly Cis Trans Total Unsaturated Total Fat Cholesterol Fiber 1 — — — — — — — — — — 2 — — — — — — — — — — 3 — — — — — — — — — — 4 — — — — — — — — — — 5 — — — — — — — — — — 6 — — — — — — — — — 100 7 — — — — — — — — — — 8 — 2 2 2 2 — 8 100 — — 9 — — — — — — — — — — 10 — — — — — — — — — — 11 — — — — — — — — — — 12 — — — — — — — — — — 13 — — — — — — — — — — 14 — — — — — — — — — — - Table 4 shows the vitamins and minerals thereof.
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TABLE 4 “Mix Info” Sheet 3 MIX INFO MINERALS & VITAMINS (mg/100 g) VITAMINS MINERALS Factory Ingredient Name B So- Potas- Cal- Magne- Phos- ID Code (as on product label) A 1 2 3 5 6 7 9 12 C D E K dium sium cium sium phorous 1 A1 ACIDULANT — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 2 B1 BUFFER — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 361 — — — 3 S1 SWEETENESS — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — INGREDIENT X 4 M1 MASKING AGENT — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 5 S2 SALT — — — — — — — — — — — — — 394 — — — — 6 S3 STABILIZER — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 7 A2 ANTICAKING — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — AGENT 8 M2 MCT OIL — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 9 C1 CREATINE — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 10 A3 ARGININE — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 11 C2 CAFFEINE — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 12 L1 L-LEUCINE — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 13 L2 L-ISOLEUCINE — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 14 L3 L-VALINE — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — - The system has certain “Base Mixes” and certain “Add-Mixes” which are provided for use in the preparation of the custom nutritional supplement composition. The different Base Mixes and Add-Mixes are designed and the proportions of the different ingredients is listed as percentages i.t.o. mass. Base Mixes might consist of individual ingredients as well as Add-Mixes. The designs are shown in Table 5.
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TABLE 5 “Base Mix & Add-Mix Design” Sheet BASE MIX & ADD-MIX DESIGN Base Mix/Add-Mix Categories: Base Mix Category: Base Mix Category: Add-Mix Category Shakes Drinks X Base Mix/Add-Mix ID: A1 A2 A3 B1 B2 B3 X1 X2 X3 Base Mix/Add-Mix Adding Factor: 1 0.95 1 Name: Standard Shake Shake Berry Drink Drink Standard Add- Add- Base Mix 2 3 Blast 2 3 Add-Mix X Mix X2 Mix X3 Minimum Qty (g): 27 28 20 2.26 2.1 2.5 0.01 0.00 0.00 Water/Milk Ratio (ml/g): 8.3 7.2 10.1 115.38 120 150 N.A. for this example Total Allocated 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% Ingredient X Add-Mix Category X N.A. for this example ID (% by Mass) Y Add-Mix Category Y (Sweetness) 10.0% Z Add- Mix Category Z 1 ACIDULANT 50.3% 2 BUFFER 11.0% 3 SWEETENESS INGREDIENT X 0.0% 4 MASKING AGENT 11.0% 5 SALT 8.0% 6 STABILIZER 4.5% 7 ANTICAKING AGENT 4.4% 8 MCT OIL 0.8% 9 CREATINE 10 ARGININE 11 CAFFEINE 12 L-LEUCINE 13 L-ISOLEUCINE 14 L-VALINE 15 STEVIA 16 XYLITOL Base Mix/Add-Mix Categories: Add-Mix Category Y (Sweetness) Add-Mix Category Z Base Mix/Add-Mix ID: Y1 Y2 Y3 Z1 Z2 Z3 Base Mix/Add-Mix Adding Factor: 1.0 118.0 0.9 1 Name: Standard Sweetener Xylitol Stevia Standard Add- Add- Add-Mix Z Mix Z2 Mix Z3 Minimum Qty (g): 0.00 1.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 Water/Milk Ratio (ml/g): N.A. for this example Total Allocated 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% Ingredient X Add-Mix Category X N.A. for this example ID (% by Mass) Y Add-Mix Category Y (Sweetness) Z Add- Mix Category Z 1 ACIDULANT 2 BUFFER 3 SWEETENESS INGREDIENT X 100% 4 MASKING AGENT 5 SALT 6 STABILIZER 7 ANTICAKING AGENT 8 MCT OIL 9 CREATINE 10 ARGININE 11 CAFFEINE 12 L-LEUCINE 13 L-ISOLEUCINE 14 L-VALINE 15 STEVIA 100% 16 XYLITOL 100% NB. Table is truncated for this example and typically continues downwards - Minimum quantities of base mix are defined and ratio of water/milk is stated.
- The final proportions of active ingredients, Add-Mixes and Base Mixes is automatically determined by using predetermined “Base Mix Factors” (attribute assigned to an Active Ingredient), “AddMix Factors” (attribute assigned to an Active Ingredient) and “Base Mix Adding Factors” (attribute assigned to a Base Mix), and “Add-Mix Adding Factors” (attribute assigned to an Add-Mix). A typical method for determining these factors is described below.
- For each ingredient a Base Mix Factor is determined. A proposed empirical method is to prepare a Base Mix complete with water added (one of the Base Mixes are chosen as the standard Base Mix). An ingredient is then tested by incrementally adding more of it and tasting/testing it to determine the maximum amount which can be added before the mix becomes unacceptable. The Base Mix Factor would then be the inverse of this ingredient—Base Mix ratio and is recorded on the “Ingredient information & Properties” sheet, Table 6.
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TABLE 6 “Ingredient Information & Properties” Sheet INGREDIENT INFORMATION & PROPERTIES Factory Ingredient Name Specifiable by Permissible Range (grams) ID Code (as on product label) Category User? Min Recommended Max 1 A1 ACIDULANT Additive No 2 B1 BUFFER Additive No 3 S1 SWEETENESS INGREDIENT X Sweetener No 4 M1 MASKING AGENT Flavourant No 5 S2 SALT Flavourant No 6 S3 STABILIZER Additive No 7 A2 ANTICAKING AGENT Additive No 8 M2 MCT OIL Additive No 9 C1 CREATINE Amino Acid Yes 0.100 g 2.500 g 10.000 g 10 A3 ARGININE Amino Acid Yes 0.100 g 1.000 g 5.000 g 11 C2 CAFFEINE Stimulant Yes 0.020 g 0.050 g 0.100 g 12 L1 L-LEUCINE Amino Acid Yes 0.100 g 1.500 g 5.000 g 13 L2 L-ISOLEUCINE Amino Acid Yes 0.100 g 1.500 g 5.000 g 14 L3 L-VALINE Amino Acid Yes 0.100 g 1.500 g 5.000 g 15 S2 STEVIA Sweetener No 16 S3 XYLITOL Sweetener No Add-Mix Factor Base Mix Factor Base Mix Factor Add-Mix Factor (Category Y Add-Mix Factor (Category: Shakes) (Category: Drinks) (Category X) (Sweetness)) (Category Z) (grams std base (grams std base (miligrams std add- (miligrams std add- (miligrams std add- ID mix/grams active) mix/grams active) mix/grams active) mix/grams active) mix/grams active) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 0.12 10 3 0.2 11 150 15 12 6 0.5 50 13 7 0.5 50 14 5 0.5 50 15 16 NB. Table is truncated for this example and typically continues downwards - If the test mix becomes unacceptable due to a characteristic which can more effectively remedied by the addition of a specific counter agent instead of just adding more of the Base Mix, an “Add-Mix” is designed. An example is a sour ingredient which will require a sweetening agent as neutraliser. The ingredient composition of this Add-Mix is captured on the “Base Mix Design” sheet.
- The most effective ratio of active ingredient vs specific Add-Mix might be empirically determined by mixing an amount of the active ingredient in water and then adding Add-Mix until the specific property is sufficiently neutralised (often, the more the Add-Mix the less Base Mix required, it might thus be a balance). The proportion of Add-Mix to active ingredient is then recorded as the Add-Mix Factor on the “Ingredient Info” sheet. An example of a theoretically determined factor would be when an acidic Active Ingredient is neutralised with a theoretically calculated amount of pH increasing additive (as an Add-Mix) based on the concentrations of hydrogen ions. Another example is relationships mined from data by means of machine learning and artificial intelligence to determine Add-Mix Factors and to refine the correlation algorithms.
- Add-Mix Factors should only be calculated for the standard Add-Mix (X1, Y1 or Z1), the Add-Mix Adding Factors are used to account for the different Add-Mixes within the same Add-Mix Category which are designed for the same purpose and might thus be used interchangeably eg. stevia mix vs xylitol mix as alternative Add-Mixes within the sweetening Add-Mix Category. The choice of which specific Add-Mix to use within an Add-Mix category is typically user selected.
- The active ingredient is then mixed with the Add-Aix and the steps are repeated with this mixture to determine the active's Base Mix Factor, to be recorded on the “Ingredient Information & Properties” sheet.
- A standard active testing mix is chosen from +−5 popular active ingredients (eg. Every ingredient at recommended dose multiplied by 10), the neutralising Add-Mixes should be included at the specified rates (summation of ingredient mass multiplied by Add-Mix Factor).). Base Mix is then incrementally added until the product is satisfactory. The Base Mix Adding Factor of the Base Mix is then adjusted on the “Base Mix Design” sheet (the sweetener factors should be returned to the correct value) until the amount of base mix specified on the “Mix Info” sheet is the same as the amount empirically tested.
- The Add-Mix Adding Factors for the standard Add-Mixes (X1, Y1 and Z1) are typically equal to 1. Additional Add-Mixes within the same Add-Mix Category should then be tested and its adding factor adjusted to a % of the standard Add-Mix. (eg. a sweetness Add-Mix's sweetness should be compared with the standard sweetness Add-Mix to determine the relationship: eg. 5% Add-Mix Adding Factor would then mean that either 100 mg of Add-Mix Y1 or 5 mg of the new sweetness Add-Mix can be used interchangeably with the same result).
- Provision is made for the sweetener portion (or any other portion) to be removed from the Base Mix recipes, and added as an Add-Mix, to allow for the specification of different options (eg stevia vs sucralose) without multiplying the number of base mixes required. For this purpose the % portion of standard sweetener (Add-Mix Y1) (or any other Add-Mix representing a portion of the Base Mix) is specified instead of the individual ingredients in the Base Mix itself. The ingredient quantities should only be in the Add-Mix design. See Table 5: “Base Mix & Add-Mix Design” Sheet for an example.
- Thus, one proposed automatic methodology of preparing a custom nutritional supplement composition of the example is as follows and which is illustrated by the diagram in
FIG. 1 : System/Method Flow Diagram. (note that the verbs refer to actions automatically performed by the computer system) - 1. The specifically added Active Ingredient quantities selected by the customer by means of the user interface (http://www.tailorblend.co.za/Web/Blend), are read from the “Mixing Input” sheet and added in the “Mix Info” sheet after adjusting for the purity (or dilution) of each ingredient in its powder form. (
FIG. 1 : calculation i.) - 2. The ingredients in the Base Mix (as specified in “Mixing Inputs” sheet) are added in the ratios as specified in the “Base Mix Design” sheet and at quantities determined as follows: each Active Ingredient quantity is multiplied with its Base Mix Factor and multiplied with the Base Mix Adding Factor to determine the contribution the specific Active Ingredient makes to the total Base Mix quantity. The contributions of all the Active Ingredients are then aggregated (using the “root of the sum of squares” function) and compared to the minimum Add-Mix quantity, the largest of which is chosen. (
FIG. 1 : calculation ii.) - 3. The ingredients in the Add-Mixes (as specified in “Mixing Inputs” sheet) are added according to each Active Ingredient quantity multiplied with the Add-Mix Factor (ingredient attribute) multiplied with the Add-Mix Adding Factor (Add-Mix attribute) for each Add-Mix. (
FIG. 1 : calculation iv.) - 4. In addition to its function as neutralising agent, additional amounts of Add-Mix (eg. sweetening Add-Mix) might be added as a function of the amount of Add-Mix forming part of the Base-Mix. The Base Mix amount is thus multiplier by the Add Mix % and multiplied by the Add-Mix Adding Factor. (
FIG. 1 : calculation iii.) - 5. The quantity of each ingredient is calculated by aggregating all the amounts calculated for each specific function of the ingredient (i.e. Active Ingredient (user specified)+Base Mix+Add-Mixes (added due to specific Active Ingredients)+Add-Mix (as a part of the Base Mix (substitute for specific ingredients)). All the attributes of each ingredient at its calculated quantity are then collected from the ingredient specific “Ingredient Info” sheet, including its nutritional information, cost etc. and aggregated in the blend specific “Mix Info” sheet (Tables 2 to 4).
- 6. The quantity of liquid to be added to the powder to reach the optimal final state of the product is calculated by multiplying the base mix quantity with the “water/milk ratio” as specified on the “Base Mix Design” sheet (Table 5).
- 7. A recipe, which is used to manufacture the blend, is generated from the information in the “Mix Info” sheet (Tables 2 to 4).
- 8. The density and the angle of repose of the final blend is calculated from the measurement of the weight of a level and a heaped scoop of the blended powder during the manufacturing process. The masses of the different available scoop combinations, using the available scoop sizes and different configurations eg. level scoop or heaped scoop, are calculated. The “scooping” (recommended volumetric serving size, displayed on the product label) is determined by comparing the ideal mass of a serving (“Mix Info” sheet) with that of the available scoop combinations and selecting the nearest one.
- 9. The product label is populated with the information from the “Mix Info” sheet and peripheral information derived thereof, including; the scooping, warning messages, usage instructions etc.
- It should be understood that the specific sequence of
steps 1 to 9 above is not intended to be limited to these 9 steps and their order as illustrated. - It is believed to be an advantage of the invention as illustrated by the example that a customer can select the amounts of the active ingredient's he or she requires, within predetermined minimum and maximum parameters, and the system selects the required additives at the required quantities to make the custom nutritional supplement composition which is palatable as well as having the desired nutritional characteristics, in an automated or semi-automated manner.
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